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Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading
The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found
Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.
The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.
A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us
A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.
Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.
When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.
Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.
The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.
The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.
I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.
To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.
There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.
Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.
It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.
There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.
They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.
You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.